New York Doll Reviews
A tribute to and stroking of its subject ... And by canonizing Kane, displaying this hulking angel with such innocence, the film is soulless.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 18, 2007
Excels at telling the extraordinary story of a bizarrely ordinary man.
| Mar 1, 2007
The Doll in the title of the fine, touching documentary New York Doll is far from a supermodel.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2006
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2006
| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 1, 2006
Touching and funny, with an unforgettable ending that could not have been better if it were fiction. One of the best films of the year.
| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 2006
The details, the personalities and the final twist grab you until you're left truly shaken and inspired.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 3, 2006
In the end, it is hard to not feel that God does work in mysterious ways, if the life of Arthur 'Killer' Kane is any example.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2006
A stirring film that [turns] Arthur Kane's largely heartbreaking rock and roll life into a small monument to the power of friendship and the wonders of the spirit.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 4, 2006
A nimble, handsome film that also happens to be about a noteworthy guy: the late Arthur 'Killer' Kane.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2006
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2006
Whiteley delicately balances both Kane's newfound devotion and his more glamorous rock 'n' roll past and pays respect to both.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2006
The odyssey is atypical and historically fascinating, but philosophically and structurally lopsided - - a textbook example of the right-place-at-the-right-time school of filmmaking.
| Jan 6, 2006
The late Johnny Thunders didn't write You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory until after the Dolls had broken up, but this lovely little heartbreaker of a movie takes the sentiment as its own.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2006
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005
An intimate portrait of a man who has lived the hard life and finally opted for serenity. Things don't turn out the way you expect, but that's part of what's surprising and moving about this film.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 28, 2005
You needn't be a fan of rock and roll to be both amused and moved by this documentary...a winningly bittersweet little film.
| Original Score: B | Nov 26, 2005
[A] respectful and subtle look at the difference faith can make in one's life.
| Original Score: B+ | Nov 23, 2005